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Breaking: LA Sheriff Preparing to Oust Tree Sitter
Various | 01/10/03

Posted on 01/10/2003 9:27:43 PM PST by socal_parrot

LA Sheriff Deputies and LA County Fire Department are moving in with equipment to remove Tree Sitter John Quiqley. They have brought in ladder trucks and are positioning them extract the wacko from the perch he has occupied since November. Quigley has been trying to halt the removal of a 400 year old oak tree dubbed "Old Glory". The tree was slated to be removed as part of a construction project. The builder has offerred to move the oak, but activists say the oak will not survive.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: enviralists; environazi; treehugger; treesitter; wacko
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To: MattGarrett
I'm with you as are a very few other on here.
161 posted on 01/11/2003 10:43:30 AM PST by Rockitz
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To: Rockitz
I was going to correct other to others in post #161 but it looks like Libertina is it so singular is appropriate. Sad...
162 posted on 01/11/2003 10:52:40 AM PST by Rockitz
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Up in Stephenson Ranch, by Santa Clarita
163 posted on 01/11/2003 11:44:24 AM PST by SwankyC
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To: MattGarrett
I'm not going to let you have it--I'm with you! A 400 year old tree should be considered a national treasure. I'm not buying that the road can't be diverted to avoid the tree. I think the ones eager to chop it down should be ashamed of themselves.
164 posted on 01/11/2003 1:37:33 PM PST by mom4kittys
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To: socal_parrot
TIMBERRRRR!!
165 posted on 01/11/2003 2:23:48 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: Rockitz; Libertina; mom4kittys; MattGarrett
I would like this grand ole' tree conserved myself--but given that it's private property, we must accept whatever decision the owner makes about its fate. If I were the owner, I wouldn't relocate the tree unless it's absolutely necessary. I would also consider any adverse effects the relocation might have on the tree. After all, it's a very valuable piece of property, and I wouldn't want it to be harmed.

But, since it isn't my tree, it isn't my decision.

As for that hippie, I would have used my gun to get him off the tree if I owned it, instead of letting him bask in the publicity the media gave him. That's what motivates these wackos anyway--being on TV!

166 posted on 01/11/2003 2:38:30 PM PST by Smile-n-Win
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To: socal_parrot
If the enviros want to save this oak, why don't they just BUY IT? We live in a capitalist society, after all, and if this tree is important, they can put their money where their mouths are.
167 posted on 01/11/2003 5:12:26 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: Toddsterpatriot
Don't kid yourself, that tree would kill you and everyone you cared about if it had the chance.

That is an absolute fact!

On New Years, last year (376 days ago), here in Indianapolis, a tree fell across a road in Cumberland, and KILLED a pastors family!!!

Talk about your "what's the chances of THAT" happening!

168 posted on 01/11/2003 5:17:04 PM PST by Elsie (I trust in Jesus... how about you??)
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To: Elsie
Here it is!

http://www.counterpunch.org/pipermail/counterpunch-list/2002-January/017371.html
169 posted on 01/11/2003 5:23:31 PM PST by Elsie (I trust in Jesus... how about you??)
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To: NormsRevenge
I was always pretty bad at climbing trees myself. I guess I didn;t have the simian gene in me. Oddly enough, I have a *dachshund* that climbs trees...

There's nothing more surreal than finding a wiener dog at eye level in a tree.

170 posted on 01/11/2003 5:38:06 PM PST by Dan Day
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To: Timesink
Sleeping dragons are also known as "black bears" in Earth First! circles.
171 posted on 01/11/2003 6:07:00 PM PST by Harley109 (Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.)
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To: socal_parrot
"That guy's beard is in a pony-tail."

Hair often get's caught in climbing hardware getting pulled in by the rope feeding through the holes.

halfway down anything is no place to be with painfully trapped hair. I have heard people screaming and whining because they didn't think before they started down the rope. It's very distracting if you are rock climbing yourself.

172 posted on 01/11/2003 6:12:51 PM PST by Harley109 (Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.)
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To: mom4kittys
"I think the ones eager to chop it down should be ashamed of themselves."

I quite agree. Respect old hardwoods;, especially if they have the grit to survive an nasty urban suburbtropolis like this one has.

Build the stupid road after the tree dies naturally. A four hundred year old low elevation tree is not gonna live as long as a bristleconed pine any way you look at it.

173 posted on 01/11/2003 6:19:13 PM PST by Harley109 (Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.)
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To: xm177e2
If the enviros want to save this oak, why don't they just BUY IT? We live in a capitalist society, after all, and if this tree is important, they can put their money where their mouths are.

'Zactly.

If they value it, let them pay for it. If they don't value it, get them off it.

The fact that the enviros didn't even make an offer to buy the tree is quite revealing about their true motives. They didn't really want to save the tree--they wanted to make the point that "capitalism is bad because it kills trees."

174 posted on 01/12/2003 4:39:33 AM PST by Smile-n-Win
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To: TigersEye
"Oh Kai, we've got the quarry located na, toim fer our final approuch. This one's gonna be a real steenker fer sure. Luckily oive ad lots of experience rasslin' crocs in mudpits full of croc droppin's. Oim as ready as I'll ever be so let's go get our treesittah...."

Very well done, Tiger!
175 posted on 01/12/2003 8:19:36 AM PST by .30Carbine ( didn't know you had *this* talent)
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